'Goosekini'

Another blog carry over from my old blog - almost done :)

When my Daughter was little the word zucchini was beyond her ability to pronounce so it became 'goosekini' and has been ever since.

Zucchini is the one vegetable that you can eat to your heart's content since it's about 95% water. Very little nutrition but a great filler if you are on a diet.

It's considered to be a summer squash (as opposed to the winter squashes, like butternut, acorn and pumpkin). If you plant your own garden and want something that will way over produce. Welcome to the wonderful world of zucchini. Make sure you pick them when they are still small or they get too many seeds and a thick skin.

One of my favorite things about zucchini is that they take on the flavor of whatever you are cooking them with. I have seen them shredded in pineapple juice and they taste like pineapple (a friend used them on ice cream as a topping). Weird. I just like that fact that they blend in with whatever your making and add bulk without calories.

Fry them up with olive oil, onion and garlic and add them to your eggs in the AM. Fry them up with olive oil, onion and garlic and add fresh tomatoes and basil and serve them as a side with dinner. I like them. Bestest taste is fried in batter with ranch dressing (I go out of my way to go to Mimi's for fried zucchini). Of course, it's not bestest for my diet so it's only an occasional item. Love it too in bread with lots of cinnamon.

Since I way over planted this summer I'm sure I will be sick of zucchini by the end of the summer but for now . . . it's all good.

Tomatoes next, I think.  Enjoy!